Saturday, August 19, 2017
One debate that keeps going on is about
the merits and flaws of the Anglo-Saxon culture. It is a debate that
is very much worth having.
Most cultures have things right with
them and things wrong with them. In the Anglo-Saxon culture, the
biggest enduring problem appears to be emotional violence. They take
a low view of feelings; so then they do bad things with feelings and
bad things to people who are feeling-oriented. This will always
alienate the feeling-oriented people, especially the artists; and I
do not see that changing for as long as this remains to be the case.
Now there are many things that are
right with the Anglo-Saxon culture. The stress on will, work,
intelligence, ethics and character is a rightful one, and it has lead
to many impressive accomplishments. However if they continue to
denigrate things such as feelings, that will always result in the
artistic type rebelling against them. This is in no way accidental.
This is a direct consequence of these traits.
In Russian and Jewish cultures, there
are also stresses on things such as work and intelligence. However
these cultures do not militate against feelings. For this reason the
artistic types in the West often look to Russia for guidance.
Sometimes it works for the better, as when they bring into the West
the great artistic and literary legacy of Russia. There are other
times when, as when they bring into the West Russia's stupid ideas on
politics, it works for the worse.
A culture that militates against
feelings will therefore always alienate feeling-oriented people. And
it is for this reason that the artistic types in the Anglo-Saxon
culture tend to become rebels, whereas say in Greece or in France
many are not. The correct solution to that is to change this state of
affairs so that feelings are not being denigrated. This being done,
the feeling-oriented people will no longer rebel against the
Anglo-Saxon culture. And instead of becoming alienated, these people
will become patriots and contributors using what they have to offer
to improve the countries in which they live.
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